Journal of the Southwest was founded in 1959 as Arizona and the West, the first journal of Western American history in the United States, and began publishing in its current format in 1987 as a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly dedicated to an integrated regional study of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. Committed to comprehensive regional research, covering a wide range of disciplinary fields including knowledge and social history, anthropology, literary studies, folklore, historiography, political science, border studies, and regional natural history. The publication of this journal aims to promote academic research and discussion in the Greater Southwest region, including northern Mexico.